Bring Your Paintings to Life with Color!

Unleash your creativity and make your paintings more dramatic and alive with vibrant color! This transformative class is designed to enrich your artwork in a modern and exciting way by focusing on color theory, design, and self-expression.

Date: May 24

Time:10:00AM – 5:00PM

Price: $125

Class Highlights:

Color Theory: Master the principles of color to elevate your artistic skills.

Design & Self-Expression: Learn how to confidently design and express yourself through your paintings.

Acrylic Demonstrations: Watch as Sally demonstrates techniques using acrylics, with the option to paint in oils if preferred.

What to Expect:

Color Mixing Exercises: Practice various techniques to perfect your color mixing and selection.

Harmonizing Colors: Learn how to create harmony and balance in your paintings through the strategic use of color.

Understanding Values: Explore values, complementary colors, tints, tones, and grays in a series of fun, hands-on exercises.

Apply your newfound skills using color to bring your subject to life.

Unlock the mystery of color and discover how it can transform your paintings with Sally’s expert guidance.

You can bring your own materials or the materials can be supplied for $20 fee

Materials List:

Paints

(students can purchase the hues of the cadmium colors)

Cadmium Yellow Light or Lemon Y
ellow or hansa yellow

Cadmium yellow medium (if you have it)
Thalo Green Blue Shade
Phtholoycyanine blue green shade
Ultramarine Blue
Cadmium Red or pyrrole red

Burnt Sienna
Quinacridone Red or alizarin crimson

Quinacridrone Magenta
Titanium White (large Tube)
Carbon Black (Golden Brand)

Paynes gray (if you have it)

I use Utrecht heavy body paints in acrylics

Golden Gloss glazing medium for blending paints and keeping them wet longer.

Supplies

Canvas or Canvas boards 2-3 of any of these sizes. 8×10 9×12 or 11×14

We will paint our  demo on an 11×14 canvas or canvas board

We will be working on small panels color exercises.

Paper Palette 9×12 or 11×14 or large Paper plates

I use a stay wet palette works great for acrylics

Spray bottle for water (use a misting bottle to keep my paints wet)

Brushes: Bring what you have and we will have some to share

I use these

Round #4 #6 #8, #10
Filbert and bright same sizes. Student will need a mix of natural hairs and synthetic brushes.
Bring any other brushes they already own

Script liner brush also know as a rigger for outlining

Container for water to clean brushes

Paper towels

Apron

Pencils for sketching and a kneaded eraser

sketch book for notes

Color wheel (the pocket one is good). I also have the Analogous Color Wheel by Hal Reed – I think you can get these on Amazon

I will also supply some drawings for practice and carbon paper to transfer the images to your canvases.

I will also have some paints, brushes and paper for the color mixing exercises